[Guidelines Change] Change to the Packaging Guidelines

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 08.08.12 12:16, Garrett Holmstrom (gholms at fedoraproject.org) wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, 08.08.12 00:17, Garrett Holmstrom (gholms at fedoraproject.org) wrote:
> >> I maintain a package (cloud-init) with several services that meet
> >> the "runs once then goes away" grant.  Shall I file a bug against
> >> the systemd package or something else?
> >
> > Cloud sounds like something that is network facing, so I guess you need
> > the OK from FESCO if you want to run it by default.
> 
> Perhaps, but the second permission grant on that page carries no such
> restriction on network-enabled services:
> 
>     In addition, any service which does not remain persistent on the
>     system (aka, it "runs once then goes away") and does not require
>     configuration to be functional may be enabled by default (but is not
>     required to do so). Examples of "runs once then goes away" services
>     include iptables and udev.
> 
> As a set of oneshot services that run once at boot time and then
> terminate, cloud-init falls entirely within the bounds of that grant.
> But if the fact that it contacts the network makes you uneasy then I
> can ask FESCo to clarify their statement.  Would that help?

Yes, it is probably better to ask FESCO for a clarification for this.

Lennart

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